The body of 75-year-old man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was part of a Halloween display and didn't call police.Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on the scene Thursday when authorities were alerted to the body.

Neighbors told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday "but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.READ MORE-

10/16/09

opens tonight @ 7pm! will you be there in RT, (real time) or in spirit? WILL YOU WEAR A COSTUME? artist- SCOOTER LAFORGE.-Ectoplasm at the Beauty salon36 x 36, oil on canvas, 2009, available @ www.antebellum.us.mscome meet scooter in person!

this footage is horrific & amazing,no worries.. the baby miraculously survived with minor bump on the head... the mother on the other-hand was distraught and traumatized for life as can well be imaged.

10/15/09

well it was just a matter of time before someone else would decide who should & should not get married.. check out this story from the huffington post.. hard to believe in 2009, but here it is-

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long."I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."READ MORE-

October 14, 2009 | 1:44 pmJudge refuses to dismiss challenge to Prop. 8A federal judge refused today to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage raised legal and factual issues that required a trial.U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, ruling after nearly two hours of arguments in San Francisco, rejected contentions by Proposition 8's proponents that precedent and tradition clearly showed last November's ballot measure permissible under the U.S. Constitution.Walker previously ordered the Proposition 8 campaign to disclose its internal memorandums and communications to gay rights lawyers. The campaign is appealing that order to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on 1st Amendment grounds.courtesy LAtimes-

and yet another beating was caught on surveillance cameras, this time in norfolk, VA. these guys beat this man up while calling him faggot and numerous other slurs.watch the horrific footage here, (from fox news, no less!)

ok, obama... have you seen this footage?... this is why we demand equal rights in all areas- NOW.

Shocking video of the brutal beating of Jack Price has been released just as news of a second arrest in the case was announced.Daniel Rodriguez was taken into custody in Norfolk, VA Tuesday night. He had eluded police since his alleged partner in crime Daniel Aleman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault as a hate crime on Sunday.Police say the suspects perpetrated the unconscionable beating early Friday morning after yelling anti-gay slurs at Price at a deli near his College Point home.Price suffered a broken jaw, fractured ribs, a lacerated spleen, and the "collapse of both of his lungs." He identified his attackers before being placed in a medically-induced coma.The video shows the men repeatedly punching and stomping Price as he tries to fend off his attackers. At one point in the video, a car that looks to be a livery taxi drives right by the assault without stopping.After the suspects leave him bloodied in the middle of the street, the 5-foot-6, 130 pound Price can be seen miraculously stumbling away.Aleman was being held on $20,000 bail Tuesday and charges are pending against Rodriguez.this story courtesy THE HUFFINGTON POST

here's what a huffington post blogger wrote-Gay men AND women need to arm themselves like Black Panthers, or even better. Buy tasers. Heck, buy Glocks. They need to have the attitude that no matter where they go, no matter what they do, no one is going to lay a finger on them and no one is going to hurt their friends. They need to have self-defense training classes and travel in groups and have committees for safety that constitute armed protection, not just whistles and mace. The only way you can stop getting bashed is to get together as a unit and say we are not going to take this anymore because it happens too often when the cameras aren't rolling. Enough is enough.READ MORE-

Brendan Mullen dies at 60; founder of influential Masque punk rock clubThe Hollywood venue, which opened in 1977, quickly became a crucible for emerging, anarchic L.A. groups like the Weirdos and the Germs and later X and the Go-Go's.i remember Brendan well from back in the day, (1977!) when he asked me to draw & create fliers for THE MASQUE. i gladly accepted the job... the first night @ the masque is now punk rock/music history... EVERYONE performed there- THE GERMS, THE GO-GOs, THE DICKIES, THE WEIRDOs, THE BAGES, THE SCREAMERS, X, THE ALLEY CATS, THE DILLS, if they had a band in 1977, they performed @ THE MASQUE.After the Masque closed in 1978, Brandan Mullen booked an eclectic mix of acts -- punk, pop, jazz and blues -- at Club Lingerie for more than a decade.Brendan Mullen, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke over the weekend. He was 60.Mullen died at Ventura County Medical Center, said his companion of 16 years, Kateri Butler. The couple had been traveling through Santa Barbara and Ventura celebrating his 60th birthday, which was Friday. - READ MORE-btw- THE MASQUE was located on cherokee ave in hollywood, one block east of antebellum gallery. it is now the basement/storeroom of world of wonder productions. all the original graffiti is still there.. HOW ABOUT CREATING A MUSEUM RANDY & FENTON?!

10/12/09

watch our clown host- FROSTY, lead us into THE WORLD'S LARGEST PIE FIGHT according to the guinness book of world records.
what those dull commentators don't realize is that this is a fetish and all those clowns had hard-ons and were ejaculating during the fight!here's a classic pie fight from the three stoogesand a fetishized version from luis draytonand an updated gilligan's island versionof course i have to add a gay pie fetish comboand then there's this kinky number

Antebellum gallery presents~ THE THIN VEILOPENS ON OCTOBER 17TH~ 7- 9PM~ $5 coverAccording to legend, the veil between worlds is the thinnest aroundHalloween. Passages between the worlds draw wakes from one to the other.Listen hard on Halloween; You'll hear the church clock strikethirteen. You'll know the veil has now grown thin. Allowing the longlost souls to step in. The moon will shine its silver glow, Thecandlelit window lets them know. You welcome them back to your table.Feeding them as well as you are able. Don't be afraid, for thesesouls are lonely. Coming back to visit for reasons only. To let youknow what is to come. When your life upon this earth is done.Celebrate this sacred night, with jack o' lanterns and candlelight.Antebellum gallery, the only fetish art gallery in America continuesit’s tradition of unique events and presents~THE THIN VEIL, the first erotic art exhibition in all mediums depicting~SPIRITS~GHOSTS~PREMONITION~ECTOPLASM~PHANTOMS~SHADOWS~DARKNESS~MELANCHOLY~SPIRITUALITYlive performance by the musical genius~here are some samples of the art~HENRY HINTERLANDRAY WIGERCHRISTOPHER LISSNERRICK CASTRORINALDO HOPFTO INQUIRE ABOUT ARTWORK & MORE INFO~ antebellum@earthlink.netwww.antebellum.us.msON EXHIBIT THRU NOVEMBER 14TH

10/11/09

yes, it's coming to that monthly salon that we @ antebellum gallery like to call-THE KINKY CAMERA CLUB!the KCC is keeping in the tradition of irving klaw, (who used bettie page as a model), antebellum is proud to recreate the camera club of the 1950s! back in the day this was an illegal activity and got some people arrested, namely IRVING KLAW. but now fast-forward to 2009 and antebellum is proud to present THE KINKY CAMERA CLUB, hosted by me, RICK CASTRO.open to photographers of all levels, from beginner's to pros, this is a great way to network with other photographers, and practice what you do best.. take photos of hot sexy guys!please join us on OCTOBER 18TH- 1-3PM- $60 PREPAY, $70@ THE DOOR

musician & heartthrob JOHN CARPENTER was @ ANTEBELLUM today to help me promote our new exhibition- THE THIN VEIL. we had a live chat with melinda @ PIRATE CAT RADIO and then john gave us a thrill & treat by performing his live rendition of HAUNT MY HOME.doesn't JOHN looks like a young GLEN CAMPBELL? he sounds like a living IAN CURTIS, crossed with PETER MURPHYyou can listen to the podcast here on- PIRATE CAT RADIO

i have always admired GORE VIDAL, ever since his debates with william buckley that started in the late 60s, continuing for the rest of their lives. GORE VIDAL is unfortunately one of the few american intellects left.

i had the pleasure of meeting and photographing GORE VIDAL back in 2004,-what a dream come true- after the shoot, we sat in his impeccably decorated living room and he chatted with me one on one.. no cameras.. he said to me, "do realize that only one thousand people run this country? ..... one thousand people make all the decisions."